Snowdon – Pennceunant Isaf

I spoke to Steffan at Pennceunant Isaf this morning who has extended his usual, fine hospitality (hot drinks, warming up our food, bara brith etc) to us for tomorrow’s walk. Pennceunant Isaf is a beautiful tea rooms and art gallery at the foot of the mountain path (Llanberis Path) on Yr Wyddfa (Mount Snowdon).

Every year Steffan allows us to park a few cars up there. This means that the people who would prefer not to do the walk up the steep road which leads up to Pennceunant Isaf can start the walk from there instead – though I am trying to discourage it this year as the group is so big. Steffan also provided me with a report on the conditions and the weather. SNOW! lots of it. Eveywhere. It’s even snowing now and he has warned me that we may not be able to get cars up the road anyway.

On the picture below you can clearly see the route we will be taking. Where the path disapears at the top of the mountain is not the destination. At that point (Clogwyn Station) we turn sharp right and traverse the west face of Garnedd Ugain (centre of the picture). The sharp turn at Clogwyn Station is a danger spot in bad visibility as failing to turn here will take you over the cliffs of Cwm Hetiau – Valley of the Hats (So called because the wind at this point would blow the hats off the heads of the Victorian ladies and gentlemen riding the train, into the valley below where they wold be found and used by the locals) . If visibility is bad I would urge anybody who is not familiar with the route not to proceede past this point without help. From there it’s just a quick hop, skip and a jump to the summit 🙂 See you there!

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